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A live event on December 9 will showcase practical approaches to modernize .NET applications using Azure, AI, and agentic tooling. The announcement was posted on the .NET Blog.
Kubernetes v1.35 (planned 2025-12-17) introduces several deprecations and new/advanced features. Major removals/deprecations include cgroup v1 support removal, deprecation of kube-proxy ipvs mode, and final support for containerd v1.x (users must move to containerd 2.0+). Notable enhancements likely in v1.35 include node declared features (alpha), in-place Pod resource updates (GA), pod certificates (beta), numeric taint comparisons, continued progress on user namespaces, and image volumes becoming default.
GitHub Mobile for Android adds a new Android sharesheet custom action that lets you share content from other apps to start Copilot agent sessions directly in the mobile app.
GitHub announced that secret scanning alert assignees and security campaigns are now generally available. Alert assignees will receive email notifications to help teams track and remediate secret scanning alerts more effectively.
As of 2025-11-25, GitHub will report publicly leaked secrets found in unlisted gists to the appropriate secret scanning partners, extending secret-scanning reporting beyond only listed/public gists.
Microsoft describes its experience building autonomous AI agents for managed detection and response (MDR) and argues that GenAI-powered security operations centers (SOCs) will reshape how humans and AI collaborate to improve detection, investigation, and response.
Azure Network Watcher now has public preview support for using Managed Identities with VNET flow logs, Traffic Analytics, and packet capture, enabling identity-based authentication to store and analyze network traffic data without relying on storage account keys.
GitHub changed code scanning’s default setup so it will run even when an organization enforces restrictive GitHub Actions policies that normally prevent certain workflows from running. Previously those policies could block the code scanning default setup.
Dependabot update jobs can now target specific self-hosted and larger GitHub-hosted Actions runners by using custom labels. The feature, previously limited to a single dependabot label, is now generally available at the organization level and provides finer control over where Dependabot runs.
Dependabot update jobs can now target specific self-hosted and larger GitHub-hosted Actions runners by using custom labels. The feature, previously limited to a single dependabot label, is now generally available at the organization level and provides finer control over where Dependabot runs.
Microsoft’s Foundry Agent Service introduces a memory capability so conversational agents can retain context across interactions rather than being stateless. This aims to prevent agents from repeating questions and removes the need for developers to build custom memory solutions using embeddings and external databases.
This Microsoft Foundry Blog post, “Translation Customization, A Developer’s Guide to Adaptive Custom Translation,” argues that translation is more than word-for-word conversion and is essential for global business communication. It highlights the need for accuracy, speed, and domain-specific terminology — noting that 70% of consumers prefer content in their native language — and frames a developer-focused guide for implementing adaptive custom translation to enable real-time, high-quality multilingual experiences.
Microsoft Foundry introduces Multi-Agent Workflows in the Foundry Agent Service to help organizations move beyond single-purpose agents toward orchestrated, multi-step, role-based AI processes that include stronger governance and operational dependability for enterprise use.
Microsoft announced that Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools is now generally available. The GA follows preview usage across multiple industries and incorporates customer feedback; the release emphasizes flexibility and control with models.
This article explains how to build audit logging for multi-platform AI bots using Python and AWS CloudWatch to answer questions like “who is actually using our bots today?”. It covers architecture, event schema, ingestion, storage, querying, privacy considerations, and practical implementation tips to capture, ship, and analyze bot usage across channels.
This article collects practical Kubernetes configuration best practices: prefer current stable APIs, keep manifests minimal and version-controlled, write YAML carefully (watch boolean values), group related objects, favor controllers (Deployments/Jobs) over naked Pods, use Services and DNS properly, avoid hostNetwork/hostPort unless necessary, apply semantic/common labels, add helpful annotations, and use kubectl features like applying directories, label selectors and server-side apply to simplify management.
Claude Opus 4.5 is available in public preview on Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers, introducing improvements in coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise productivity with upgraded performance and versatility.
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 is now rolling out in public preview for GitHub Copilot; early tests show it outperforms internal coding benchmarks while cutting token usage roughly in half.
Azure File Sync is now generally available in the New Zealand North region, enabling customers to tier data from on-premises Windows Servers to Azure Files for hybrid scenarios and simplified migration while preserving on-premises file server performance and compatibility.
Azure Bastion now supports Microsoft Entra ID authentication for RDP connections to Windows VMs directly in the Azure portal (public preview). This allows users to authenticate with their Entra ID identity instead of using local VM credentials.
Microsoft announced general availability of native regular expression (regex) support in T-SQL. The feature is available in Azure SQL and SQL Server 2025, enabling advanced pattern matching directly in queries to simplify code, improve maintainability, and reduce external dependencies.
Azure MCP Server is now generally available with support for Azure Database for MySQL, allowing AI agents and applications to interact with MySQL data using natural language via the open Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Azure Load Testing (part of Azure App Testing) is now generally available in the Italy North region, allowing customers there to run high-scale load tests and simulations to find performance bottlenecks.
Azure Functions now has generally available support for custom handlers on the Flex consumption plan, enabling lightweight HTTP-based handlers written in any language to receive events from the Functions host.
Azure is retiring Low-Priority VMs on September 30, 2025. Azure Machine Learning will continue supporting them until March 31, 2026, and customers are advised to migrate their compute clusters to dedicated VMs to prevent automatic scale-down and service disruption.
Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management, marking the ninth consecutive year the company has received this recognition.
GitHub announced a public preview (Nov 20) that lets you view the pull request description directly on the new “Files changed” page so reviewers don’t need to scroll, switch tabs, or lose context.
GitHub expanded GitHub Actions cache storage so repository cache size can now exceed 10 GB, allowing projects to retain more build dependencies between workflow runs.
Azure’s Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS now offers container network metrics filtering in public preview. The feature lets customers reduce ingestion of unnecessary network telemetry from containers to lower storage costs and declutter monitoring dashboards by controlling which network metrics are collected.
GitHub Copilot Code Review now integrates linter feedback directly into code reviews and lets repositories specify which linters to use via repository rulesets. The feature is available in public preview so teams can start surfacing and customizing actionable linter suggestions within reviews.
Microsoft announced General Availability of MCP support for the AI Toolchain Operator add-on in AKS. The add-on now supports KAITO inference workspaces with integrated tool calling and Model Context Protocol (MCP), helping address challenges related to dynamic model/context handling in inference workflows.
Azure CNI powered by Cilium for AKS now generally available: the local redirect policy reduces cross-node traffic routing to improve latency and performance for high-scale AKS workloads.
Azure announced General Availability of cluster-wide Cilium network policy for AKS clusters using Azure CNI powered by Cilium. The feature enables consistent, cluster-scoped network policy enforcement across Kubernetes namespaces, addressing a common challenge for platform teams and multi-tenant environments.
Azure Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS announces general availability of Layer 7 Policy, enabling customers to enforce fine‑grained application‑layer traffic control in microservices architectures.
Azure NetApp Files now generally available: single file restore from backups lets you recover individual files from an Azure NetApp Files backup vault without restoring the entire volume, reducing time and cost.
The article describes how the .NET team replaced a complex distributed build system with a Unified Build approach. This change significantly simplified the build pipeline, cut build times, and made shipping .NET releases more flexible and predictable.
Azure DNS security policy Threat Intelligence feed is now generally available. It provides a Microsoft-managed threat intelligence feed to protect DNS queries by identifying and blocking known malicious domains, helping prevent attacks that begin with DNS resolution.
Microsoft announces Foundry Local for Android, a preview that lets developers run AI models directly on Android devices without cloud round trips. The release also introduces on-device speech capabilities, on-premises deployment options, and a simplified SDK to make integrating local AI into mobile apps easier. A gated preview signup is available.
This tutorial shows how to evaluate and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agents in Microsoft Foundry using Foundry Observability. It recommends running end-to-end, reference-free RAG triad evaluators (Groundedness and Relevance) and applying advanced search and retrieval tuning before deployment.
A practical developer guide from Microsoft Foundry showing how to start using Azure OpenAI’s next-generation GPT-4o audio models to build transcription and text-to-speech applications. The post explains the capabilities of the audio models, required setup in Azure/OpenAI and Foundry, best practices for integration, and considerations for testing, deployment, and costs.
Azure Sphere OS version 25.10 is now generally available in the Retail feed. The release contains OS-only updates (no SDK update), and internet-connected devices will receive the update automatically from the cloud.
Microsoft announced the integration of Azure Language into Foundry Tools to support building enterprise-grade agents that emphasize deterministic behavior and stronger privacy protections. The update is positioned to help teams create predictable, secure agentic applications with tighter integration across their AI stack.
Microsoft Foundry now offers major public-preview enhancements for models and agentic AI pipelines, including an AI Red Teaming Agent that helps organizations proactively identify and mitigate safety and security risks in models and agentic systems before they enter production.
GitHub announced that Enterprise Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for GitHub Copilot is now in public preview. The feature responds to enterprise demand for greater flexibility, enabling teams that already use specific LLM providers or custom models to integrate those workflows with Copilot.
Azure Marketplace now offers Arm64 images that support Trusted Launch, enabling customers to run Arm64 virtual machines with Trusted Launch security features. This combines Arm64 cost and performance efficiencies with the integrity and protection benefits of Trusted Launch.
Azure NetApp Files migration assistant is in public preview with Azure portal support. It uses ONTAP SnapMirror replication to provide an efficient, cost‑effective, and seamless way to move data from on‑premises or CVO/other cloud providers into Azure NetApp Files (ANF).
Azure NetApp Files cache volumes are now available in public preview. The feature, built on NetApp’s ONTAP FlexCache technology, provides a persistent, high-performance cache in Azure for data stored on ONTAP-based storage.
Azure Monitor is available in public preview for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters running OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift. It provides a complete set of monitoring services to track the health and performance of Kubernetes infrastructure layers and the applications that depend on them.
Azure announces general availability of CSI Dynamic Provisioning for Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS), allowing Kubernetes workloads to request AMLFS-backed persistent volumes on demand using standard StorageClass and PersistentVolumeClaim objects.
Azure Managed Lustre is now generally available with full integration into Azure MCP Server, allowing developers and infrastructure teams to manage Managed Lustre file systems through Azure MCP Server management workflows.
Azure Managed Lustre is in public preview with a new 20 MB/s/TiB performance tier that targets large-scale AI and HPC workloads and lets customers provision file systems up to 25 PiB in size.
Azure has released Auto-import for Azure Managed Lustre (AMLFS) in public preview, a policy-driven feature that synchronizes data from Azure Blob Storage containers into AMLFS clusters, automatically reflecting new and changed objects.
GitHub released CodeQL 2.23.5, the static analysis engine used by GitHub code scanning. This update adds support for Swift 6.2, introduces three new Java security queries, and improves analysis accuracy.
GitHub Copilot Testing for .NET is now available in Visual Studio, allowing developers to automatically generate, build, and run high-quality unit tests across files, projects, or entire solutions to boost test coverage and speed up the testing workflow.
Azure Monitor is in public preview with one-click enablement of recommended alerts in the Azure portal for Azure Monitor Managed Service for Prometheus customers. These alerts monitor Azure Monitor Workspace ingestion limits to help prevent metric ingestion issues.
Azure Managed Redis is now available in the Microsoft Foundry MCP tools catalog as a Public Preview, enabling customers to use Redis as a knowledge or memory store for Foundry-based AI agents and simplifying the connection between Redis and those agents.
Azure Application Gateway is generally available with support for TLS and TCP termination, enabling load balancing and secure processing of non-HTTP(S) traffic.
Azure Databricks Genie is now integrated with Microsoft Foundry and available in public preview, enabling Genie spaces to connect directly to Foundry agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to give seamless access to trusted data for building intelligent solutions.
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure Databricks Genie in Copilot Studio, providing direct access to intelligent, enterprise-grade AI answers across the full Azure Databricks data estate and enabling conversational analytics.
Azure API Management now publicly previews support for A2A (agent) APIs. This enables organizations to manage and govern agent APIs alongside AI model APIs, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, and traditional APIs.
Microsoft announced that Anthropic’s Claude models are generally available in Microsoft Foundry, giving enterprises access to Claude Sonnet 4.5, Opus 4.1, and Haiku 4.5 for advanced long-context reasoning, coding, and multimodal capabilities within Foundry’s unified frontier AI ecosystem.
GitHub announced updates to Copilot CLI that add support for the latest AI models, improve code search capabilities, provide better image handling, and include reliability and performance enhancements.
Azure has published a public preview update for Azure Copilot agents that spotlights the deployment agent. The deployment agent — one of six new agent types — is designed to help teams discover, plan, and deploy cloud workloads faster and with greater confidence by providing guided workflows, automation, and integration with Azure deployment patterns.
This .NET Blog post shows a step-by-step workflow using Visual Studio 2026 and GitHub Copilot agent mode to modernize .NET applications by upgrading .NET versions and frameworks, resolving build issues, and migrating apps to Azure with reduced manual effort.
The VS Code Private Marketplace is now generally available. It provides a secure, enterprise-ready solution to host and manage VS Code extensions internally, fully integrated with VS Code and designed for teams that need control over deployment and updates.
Microsoft announced the public preview of Smart Tier, an account-level, fully managed and automated data tiering solution for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) that removes the need for manual tiering.
Microsoft announced a public preview integration of Microsoft Defender for Cloud with GitHub Advanced Security to protect cloud-native applications across the full application lifecycle — from code to cloud — and to unify developers and security teams in a single workflow.
Azure announces Managed Instance on Azure App Service in Public Preview, a capability that simplifies lift-and-shift migrations of web apps (especially .NET) from on-premises or VMs to the cloud with minimal configuration and no code rewrites.
Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL is a new managed PostgreSQL offering now in private preview that emphasizes high performance, large autoscaling storage (up to 128 TB), and rapid compute scalability (up to 3,072 vCores), claiming up to 3× faster performance than open-source PostgreSQL.
GitHub Copilot plugins for JetBrains, Eclipse, and Xcode now include enhanced authentication capabilities that expand support for third‑party OAuth providers using a secure, flexible approach based on Dynamic Client Registration (DCR).
GitHub Copilot now offers an Auto model selection option in Copilot Chat for JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, and Eclipse. Selecting Auto lets Copilot choose the most appropriate model for you; the feature is available in public preview.
GitHub Copilot now offers custom agents in public preview for JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse, and Xcode. These agents let teams package reusable expertise, enforce guardrails, and grant tool access so AI behavior can be tailored to specific projects and workflows.
GitHub announced a public preview integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud that provides unified risk visibility across code, build artifacts, and production context so teams can track, prioritize, and remediate the security risks that matter.
GitHub announced that isolated subagents are now in public preview for JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse, and Xcode. These subagents, powered by isolated context, let developers delegate focused tasks to autonomous agents. The announcement appeared on the GitHub Blog.
GitHub announced that Copilot Next Edit Suggestions (NES) is now in public preview for Xcode and Eclipse. The feature offers next-logical-edit suggestions to help developers move faster, and the announcement appears on the GitHub Blog changelog.
GitHub Copilot’s Plan mode is now available in public preview for JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse, and Xcode, announced on the GitHub Blog.
GitHub Copilot coding agent is now available in public preview for Eclipse, bringing Copilot directly into native Eclipse workflows and adding features such as the ability to delegate tasks from within the IDE.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports v6-series VMs (general purpose and memory-optimized) with local NVMe storage in public preview. The v6 family is offered with both Intel and AMD processor options, including AMD v6 Confidential Compute.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now generally available: vector indexing performance improvements deliver faster vector inserts and index builds, reducing end-to-end ingestion and indexing times for large AI workloads through algorithmic enhancements.
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now generally available. Built on Visual Studio 2026, SSMS 22 adds support for SQL Server 2025 and offers improved integration for managing and troubleshooting SQL databases and writing T-SQL.
Microsoft Fabric’s SQL database is now generally available — a fully SaaS-native SQL offering built on the SQL Server and Azure SQL Database engine that enables developers and data professionals to unify operational and analytical workloads with improved speed and security.
Azure Container Apps now generally available rule-based routing: a production-ready feature that simplifies traffic control and routing for microservices, enabling A/B testing and blue‑green deployments.
Azure Cosmos DB now generally available: priority-based execution can be enabled so high-priority requests are favored during contention, with low-priority requests throttled first to allow critical operations to proceed on a best-effort basis.
Azure Container Apps’ Premium Ingress is now generally available, introducing environment-level ingress configuration and customizable ingress scaling to provide more control over how the platform handles incoming traffic.
Microsoft announces the general availability of the PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, which enables connecting to PostgreSQL instances, running queries, managing connection profiles, and supports Microsoft Entra ID with integration for GitHub Copilot.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL 18 and this release is generally available. It brings the latest PostgreSQL innovations plus seamless in-place upgrade support so you can move from earlier versions without changing your server endpoint.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now generally available: pod sandboxing. This feature allows containers to run in per-workload pod virtual machines (pod VMs) to improve isolation and security in shared environments.
Azure announced general availability of a portal-based, self-serve online migration that moves workloads from Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB RU to Azure DocumentDB, enabling modernization with zero downtime.
Azure announced general availability of a new SQL Server migration solution in Azure Arc that streamlines migrations to Azure SQL Managed Instance by combining Azure Database Migration Service with Copilot to provide an automated, end-to-end migration experience.
Azure announced the general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool trigger for Azure Functions. MCP is a protocol that lets applications provide capabilities and context to large language models, including defining tools that AI agents can call. The new trigger makes it easier to expose Azure Functions as MCP tools so LLM-based agents can invoke serverless operations directly.
Microsoft Fabric mirroring for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server is now generally available. The feature lets you mirror PostgreSQL Flexible Server data into Microsoft Fabric (OneLake) to centralize data and simplify analytics, with support for network-isolated environments.
Microsoft announced that the mssql-python driver for SQL Server is now generally available (GA). The release delivers a modern, high-performance, and developer-friendly experience for Python developers working with SQL Server and Azure SQL Database.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now has Managed Namespaces generally available. The feature centralizes creation and management of Kubernetes namespaces across AKS clusters to reduce manual setup, lower the risk of misconfiguration, and simplify enforcement of tenant- and team-level configuration.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now generally supports fuzzy search in its built-in full-text search, enabling typo-tolerant and error-resilient search experiences so users can find relevant results even when queries contain mistakes.
Azure Cosmos DB now generally supports the float16 (half-precision) data type for vector indexes, letting you store and query vectors with half-precision floats to reduce storage needs compared with float32.
Azure announced General Availability of ExpressRoute Scalable Gateway (ErGwScale), a next-generation Virtual Network Gateway that enables dynamic scaling of gateway infrastructure to improve flexibility, performance, and operational simplicity for ExpressRoute deployments.
Azure announced general availability of Elastic clusters for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, enabling horizontal scaling using row-based and schema-based sharding and simplifying multitenant application development by offloading shard management and operations such as tenant isolation.
Azure announces general availability of Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric. The integration lets teams build combined operational and analytical workloads in Fabric, leveraging Azure Cosmos DB AI features and Fabric innovations to run SQL queries over JSON data and enable real-time scenarios.
Azure Virtual Network Manager’s address space overlap prevention for mesh deployments is now generally available. The feature prevents unintended IP address overlaps across virtual networks in a mesh to avoid dropped traffic, improving reliability and governance in multi-VNet environments.
November 2025 Azure SQL update (Generally Available): reservation discounts for 1-year and 3-year reservations now apply to zone-redundant Azure SQL Managed Instances in the General Purpose tier; the notice indicates the discount covers both standard compute and additional compute option(s) (source content truncated).
Microsoft announced the Generally Available Next‑gen General Purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance, delivering major performance improvements along with increased compute flexibility while preserving cost advantages and the simplicity of a fully managed PaaS.
Azure SQL Database now generally supports immutability for long-term retention (LTR) backups. When immutability is enabled, LTR backups cannot be modified or deleted until their configured retention period expires, helping organizations meet compliance and protect backups from deletion or ransomware.
Azure Functions now supports OpenTelemetry in general availability, allowing developers to export logs, traces, and metrics using open standards. This GA release follows the public preview and provides a production-ready observability experience.
Azure announced that the Azure Functions Durable Task Scheduler is generally available on the Dedicated SKU and available in public preview on the Consumption SKU. The scheduler is an orchestration engine for complex workflows and intelligent agents that automatically checkpoints progress and protects orchestration state to enable resilient workflows.
Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure DocumentDB, a fully managed, open-source, MongoDB-compatible document database service—formerly offered as Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB—and now governed by the Linux Foundation for hybrid and multicloud deployments.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server now generally supports the Azure Storage extension for Parquet files with multiple compression options, allowing direct read/write of Parquet from the database to accelerate data access and integration.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now offers the anon extension as generally available, providing built-in data anonymization tools for production use.
Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric is now generally available, enabling customers to mirror operational Cosmos DB data into Fabric to run analytics and SQL queries without impacting production workloads.
Azure announced the general availability of the Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code, a production-ready VS Code extension that lets developers manage Cosmos DB resources and develop against Cosmos DB directly inside the editor.
Azure Cosmos DB fleet pools are now generally available. They enable easier operation of Cosmos DB accounts at scale and provide new capabilities for building multitenant SaaS applications, simplifying capacity management by allowing pooled capacity.
Azure Container Registry (ACR) repository permissions with attribute-based access control (ABAC) is now generally available, enabling fine-grained, least-privilege control over which Microsoft Entra identities can publish (push) or consume (pull) container images at the repository level.
Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs are now generally available in additional regions, enabling developers to run AI inference, model training, and other GPU-accelerated workloads using the simplicity of a serverless platform.
Azure Application Gateway now generally supports mTLS passthrough, enabling backend applications to receive client certificates and authorization headers for their own validation while still using the Web Application Firewall for traffic inspection.
Slow start is now generally available for Application Gateway for Containers. The load balancing algorithm gradually increases traffic to newly created pods over a configurable window to improve stability and performance during backend scale‑up.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) announced General Availability of an Automatic pod readiness SLA: eligible pods will meet readiness criteria within five minutes at the 99.9th percentile, enabling customers to deploy mission-critical workloads with greater confidence.
Azure has made generally available enhanced sampling and richer data collection capabilities in the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro (which powers Azure Monitor Application Insights). The release introduces new sampling options including rate-limited sampling and trace-based log sampling to give teams finer control over telemetry volume and correlation.
Azure announced the general availability of the 2025 REST API for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, adding support for PostgreSQL 17 and 18 so you can adopt those versions without changing automation patterns; the release also includes the ability to set a default database.
SQL Server 2025 is now generally available. Positioned as an AI-ready enterprise database, the release brings built-in AI capabilities and closer integration with Microsoft’s data platform as part of Microsoft’s effort to modernize enterprise data platforms.
Azure Functions Flex Consumption is now the recommended hosting plan for serverless workloads that need advanced scaling, improved networking, and better cost optimization. Microsoft has published resources to help customers migrate from the Azure Functions Consumption plan and from AWS Lambda to Flex Consumption.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) has announced a public preview for Windows Server 2025 on AKS to help customers modernize Windows-based workloads as older Windows Server versions near end-of-support.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now supports Italian and Portuguese in its full-text search capability. The feature is available today in public preview and lets you build richer, language-aware search experiences.
Azure announced the public preview of StandardV2 NAT Gateway and StandardV2 Public IPs, providing next-generation, scalable and resilient outbound connectivity with features such as zone-redundancy for high availability in availability-zone supported regions.
Azure announced a public preview that lets you host remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers built with MCP SDKs on Azure Functions, enabling easier self-hosting and integration with the Functions platform.
Microsoft announced a public preview of Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration tooling built into the Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. The tool aims to make migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL simpler and faster by providing conversion support directly inside VS Code.
Microsoft released the Azure DocumentDB Migration extension for Visual Studio Code in public preview, enabling zero-cost migrations of MongoDB workloads to Azure DocumentDB with support for both online and offline migration modes.
Azure announced the public preview of NCv6/NC Series virtual machines featuring Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs to provide hardware acceleration for a wide array of workloads.
Microsoft announced a public preview of new integration and extensibility capabilities for Azure SRE Agent — an AI-driven, prompt-based automation layer that unifies operational workflows and aims to reduce complexity and overhead for cloud operations.
Microsoft announced the public preview of native Microsoft Foundry support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL. The Azure PostgreSQL MCP Server is now integrated with Microsoft Foundry, enabling the creation of AI agents that can securely query and analyze PostgreSQL data.
Microsoft announced the public preview of the HTTP DDoS Ruleset 1.0 for Application Gateway WAF v2. The ruleset is designed to help mitigate evolving HTTP-layer DDoS and botnet-driven attacks that can bypass static controls.
Azure has announced a public preview of JSON Web Token (JWT) validation in Azure Application Gateway, allowing authentication and token validation to occur at the gateway before requests reach backend applications or APIs.
Public preview of Index Advisor integrated into the DocumentDB for VS Code extension. It helps you view and debug database performance and uses natural-language recommendations to suggest optimal indexing and best practices for MongoDB workloads.
Azure Container Apps announced a public preview of dynamic shell sessions — platform-managed, built-in containers that provide isolated, sandboxed environments to run and execute common shell commands. The update also adds MCP support.
Azure Cosmos DB is in Public Preview for Dynamic Data Masking (DDM), a server-side, policy-based feature that dynamically masks sensitive data for non-privileged users to help prevent unauthorized access.
Azure Container Apps now supports deployment labels in public preview as a new deployment mode. This feature simplifies environment management and enables advanced deployment strategies by letting you assign meaningful names to deployments.
Azure Virtual Network Manager (VNet Manager) now offers public preview support to associate a single IP Address Management (IPAM) pool with virtual networks across multiple regions. This cross-region pool association simplifies governance and ensures consistent CIDR allocation for multi-region deployments.
Azure Container Apps now supports confidential computing in public preview, bringing hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to containerized workloads to protect data in use and complement existing encryption of data at rest and in transit.
Azure announced a Public Preview that adds advanced filtering capabilities to VNet Flow Logs, which capture IP traffic through VNets, subnets, and NICs to support monitoring, troubleshooting, network optimization, security, and compliance.
Public preview announced in November 2025: the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code adds an interactive Edit Data interface that lets you view, modify, and insert table rows without manually writing T-SQL, improving data editing workflows for Azure SQL.
Azure announces public preview of DiskANN-based vector indexing in Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric, enabling efficient disk-based approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) vector similarity search inside relational database services.
Azure SQL now supports Change Event Streaming (CES) in public preview, allowing near‑real‑time streaming of data changes from Azure SQL Database directly into Azure Event Hubs. The feature is designed to simplify data integration and enable event‑driven architectures and enhanced analytics by delivering change events with low latency.
Azure Network Watcher Topology now supports AKS visualization in Public Preview, providing end-to-end visibility of Azure Kubernetes Service clusters inside the Azure networking experience so customers can inspect their Kubernetes environments and networking relationships.
Microsoft announced a public preview for Azure Network Watcher Topology that adds AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) visualization and an agentless connection troubleshooting capability, providing end-to-end visibility of Kubernetes clusters within the Azure networking experience.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) desktop is available in public preview. It provides a modern, application‑centric, guided self‑service interface for deploying and managing workloads on AKS, built on supported AKS features, best practices, and the open‑source Headlamp project.
Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager now has public preview support for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, allowing organizations to manage CNCF-compliant clusters across hybrid and multi-cloud environments from a single plane.
Azure Functions now has public preview support for Node.js 24, enabling local development and deployment to Azure Functions on both Windows and Linux. Node.js 24 does not support 32-bit Windows, so new Windows Function Apps targeting Node.js 24 default to 64-bit to ensure compatibility.
Azure Functions now offers public preview support for Java 25, allowing local development and deployment to Azure Functions on both Windows and Linux with benefits including enhanced security and extended support.
Azure DocumentDB public preview introduces high-performance storage that enables larger, faster workloads on fewer nodes with much higher capacity, IOPS and throughput per physical shard.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL — Flexible Server now supports the pg_duckdb extension in public preview, allowing you to use DuckDB’s vectorized, columnar execution inside your PostgreSQL server to accelerate analytics workloads.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now provides an MCP Toolkit for use with the Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, available in public preview; the integration enables Microsoft Foundry Agents to connect directly to data stored in Azure Cosmos DB.
Azure Cosmos DB Fleet Analytics is in public preview and provides centralized, large-scale insights across multiple Cosmos DB accounts, subscriptions, and workloads to help manage and analyze data across an organization’s entire Cosmos DB footprint.
Azure Container Apps launched a Public Preview of a flexible workload profile that combines the simplicity and pay-per-use serverless model of consumption plans with many performance and control characteristics typically found in dedicated workload profiles.
Azure Container Apps is announcing a public preview that brings Docker Compose support to the service, enabling developers to use their existing docker-compose workflows to define and run multi-container applications directly on Azure Container Apps. This integration aims to simplify deployment and lower the friction for moving compose-based projects to the cloud.
Application Gateway for Containers is in public preview for integration with the Istio service mesh via an optional service mesh extension, enabling simplified secure north–south communication between external clients and services inside the mesh.
Microsoft announced a public preview for AKS Automatic managed system node pools, a feature that automates provisioning and maintenance (scaling, patching, availability) of AKS system node pools to reduce operational overhead and let teams focus on applications.
Microsoft has released a public preview that integrates the durable extension for Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure Functions, enabling durable, hosted orchestration for production-grade AI agents.
Microsoft announced general availability of an integration between the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot, bringing AI-powered SQL assistance into the VS Code workflow to reduce repetitive tasks, accelerate development, and assist with database schema design.
Microsoft has opened a private preview for performance enhancements in the latest Azure Boost architecture that improve remote storage throughput and network bandwidth. Azure Boost offloads virtualization functions (networking, storage, host management) and these updates aim to boost I/O and network performance for VMs and cloud services.
Azure Boost confidential device is entering a private preview. Azure Boost offloads virtualization tasks such as networking, storage, and host management from the hypervisor and host OS to purpose-built hardware and software.
GitHub announced that enterprise and organization administrators can configure internal MCP registries and enforce allowlist policies in the latest VS Code Stable release (public preview), extending governance controls to the majority of Copilot users.
Azure announced the public preview of the Azure Copilot observability agent — a new agent aimed at giving cloud operations intelligent, scalable observability that provides actionable insights when services aren’t performing as expected.
Google’s Gemini 3 Pro model is now available in public preview within GitHub Copilot for Pro, Pro+ Business, and Enterprise subscribers; the rollout is gradual and announced on the GitHub Blog.
Microsoft Foundry’s enterprise features are now generally available, providing IT administrators tools to streamline AI development and management while enforcing enterprise-grade security, compliance, governance, and cost controls.
Scheduled Actions is now generally available in Azure. It enables periodic, large-scale lifecycle management of virtual machines with built-in handling for subscription throttling and automatic retries to reduce operational overhead.
Microsoft announced general availability of resale enabled offers in the Microsoft Marketplace. The capability formalizes a channel-led commerce path on Azure, letting independent software vendors (ISVs) and commercial customers transact through reseller and partner relationships via the Marketplace.
Azure announced general availability of the API Management Premium v2 tier, a more powerful and scalable option designed for enterprise-scale API management with improved performance and expanded capacity.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is now generally available on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO), enabling customers to run and manage virtual machines and containers from a single cloud-native platform. The GA release builds on feedback from the preview announced at Red Hat Summit.
Azure announced Observability in Foundry Control Plane with public preview for agents and a GA pre-announcement for model evaluations. The capability is a suite of tools to evaluate, monitor, and optimize model quality, performance, and safety within the Foundry Control Plane.
Microsoft announced that Azure Logic Apps has expanded hybrid integration with a new set of connectors now generally available. The announcement highlights the Confluent Kafka connector, which enables Logic Apps to connect to Confluent Cloud for event streaming.
Microsoft Foundry’s Model Router is now generally available. The Model Router is an AI orchestration layer that dynamically selects the optimal model for each prompt and now supports a broader range of models including the GPT-4 family, GPT-5 family, GPT-oss, and Deepse.
Microsoft Marketplace, a consolidated storefront for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents, is now generally available worldwide after its initial U.S. launch in September; traffic from legacy storefronts (Azure Marketplace and AppSource) is being redirected to the new Marketplace.
Azure API Management (APIM) now generally supports governance for Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoints. The GA release brings APIM’s governance, security, and observability capabilities to AI-driven workloads, enabling enterprises to manage and monitor MCP endpoints through existing APIM controls.
Azure announced Generally Available enhancements to GitHub Copilot App Modernization, expanding capabilities to simplify modernization of applications, databases and containers and to accelerate migrations to Azure.
Microsoft announced Foundry Tools (rebranded from Azure AI Services) as generally available — a unified suite of prebuilt, production-ready AI capabilities for audio, video, images, documents, and text, seamlessly integrated into the Microsoft Foundry platform to empower developers.
Azure App Service now generally supports custom error pages, allowing apps to show user-defined error pages instead of the default ones.
Microsoft announced general availability of Content Understanding, which now connects to Microsoft Foundry model deployments and adds enterprise features including VNet, Managed Identity, and Customer Managed Key support.
Azure Monitor now provides a unified, single-click onboarding experience for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and virtual machines (VMs), now generally available. The new experience simplifies setup by automatically deploying the latest Azure Monitor capabilities.
Azure announced general availability of an automated testing framework for Azure Logic Apps (Standard) in the Visual Studio Code extension, enabling developers and integration specialists to create automated tests to improve workflow reliability.
Azure announced the general availability of Agent Loop for Azure Logic Apps (Standard), a new capability intended to reshape how organizations design and automate business processes by enabling approaches that go beyond traditional workflow automation.
Microsoft announced that API Center Standard, previously a separately billed offering, is now included at no additional cost for Azure API Management Standard and Premium customers when an API Center instance is linked to the corresponding API Management service.
Microsoft announced the public preview of a redesigned designer experience for Azure Logic Apps (Standard), offering a faster, more intuitive way to build, edit, and manage workflows with integrated run history and workflow editing capabilities.
Azure Monitor now offers OpenTelemetry-based visualizations in public preview and an enhanced, unified monitoring experience that consolidates key monitoring capabilities into a single view for Azure Virtual Machines and Arc-enabled servers.
Azure Cosmos DB now offers Online Container Copy (Public Preview), which lets you copy data from one container to another in real time to minimize downtime while the source container remains available to your application.
Microsoft announced a public preview of new healthcare-focused connectors for Azure Logic Apps to expand interoperability. The announcement highlights a rich set of connectors now available in public preview, explicitly naming an HL7 connector to enable HL7 messaging and streamlined data exchange between healthcare systems.
Microsoft Foundry is releasing a Public Preview with more granular controls for network and integration security and resource management, enabling IT administrators to deploy enterprise AI solutions while meeting governance and security requirements.
Microsoft Foundry is in Public Preview with new ready-to-use, customizable AI templates for common scenarios—such as live voice agents, release management, data unification, and SharePoint integrations—that eliminate repetitive setup tasks and speed development.
Microsoft announced a public preview of new Agent Loop capabilities for Azure Logic Apps that expand how organizations build, secure, and deploy agentic workflows to enable more flexible AI orchestration across enterprise environments.
Azure’s Foundry Agent Service now offers multi-agent workflows in public preview, letting developers create orchestrated, modular multi-agent processes via a visual designer or a code-first API. The feature supports context sharing, persistent state, and error recovery to handle complex enterprise scenarios.
Microsoft Foundry is in public preview with a one-click, no-code publishing feature that lets organizations deploy custom agents to Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and non-Microsoft channels, removing pro-code deployment complexity and enabling instant reach to large user bases.
Microsoft Foundry Fine-Tuning enters Public Preview with a complete UI redesign that emphasizes an agent-first experience. The updated interface streamlines model creation, evaluation, and deployment workflows and adds integration with Visual Studio to improve developer and data scientist productivity.
Microsoft has announced a public preview of Microsoft Foundry Control Plane and Entra Agent ID, a unified platform for enterprise AI agent observability, security, and governance. The Control Plane combines identity, monitoring, and compliance capabilities to provide centralized control, deep observability, and regulatory alignment for AI agents.
Microsoft Foundry announces a public preview of LLM Speech, an API that applies large language model capabilities to speech tasks—providing fluent, context-aware transcription and translation with expanded multilingual support and advanced prompt tuning.
Azure announced the public preview of the Ebsv6 VM series (and Ebdsv6) powered by 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® processors, offering up to 800,000 IOPS and 14 GBps of remote disk storage throughput for high-performance storage workloads.
Azure announces a public preview of hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service that let teams move custom-code agents from local experimentation to production more easily. The feature supports agents built with Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, CrewAI, and other open-source frameworks.
Microsoft announced public preview enhancements to GitHub Copilot App Modernization that expand capabilities to help modernize applications, databases, and containers and accelerate migrations to Azure.
Foundry Local is in public preview and now supports the Whisper model and enhanced on-device AI for smartphones, tablets, and IoT devices, enabling privacy-preserving speech and audio processing and featuring a redesigned Foundry for improved local deployment.
Foundry IQ, now in public preview and powered by Azure AI Search, is a knowledge system that lets agents access and ground on enterprise data through a single unified knowledge base, eliminating the need to manage multiple source-specific APIs.
Azure Files now offers Entra-only identities in public preview, providing a cloud-native authentication option for SMB file share access using Microsoft Entra Kerberos so customers can retire on-premises domain controllers.
Microsoft Foundry (Foundry Agent Service) now supports enhanced Enterprise MCP integration in public preview, enabling secure, authenticated connections that let credentials be passed to MCP servers securely to improve flexibility, security, and compliance.
Microsoft Foundry (public preview) introduces a unified catalog of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools that let developers enrich agents with real-time business context, multimodal capabilities, and custom business logic.
Azure Monitor now supports dynamic thresholding for Log search alerts in public preview, automatically calculating appropriate alert thresholds so you don’t have to set them manually.
Azure’s Foundry Agent Service introduces built-in long-term memory (Public Preview). Integrated into the Foundry runtime, this persistent memory layer gives developers a scalable, robust foundation so agents can remember, adapt, and act coherently across sessions and workflows.
Azure Machine Configuration now offers built-in CIS benchmarks in public preview for all Azure-endorsed Linux distributions via a new customizable security benchmarks capability powered by azure-osconfig.
Microsoft announced a public preview for a Bring Your Own (BYO) AI Model Gateway feature that lets enterprises connect Foundry-hosted models to the Foundry Agent Service through third-party API gateway solutions. The Agent Service will honor pre- and post-LLM hooks and apply policy-based model controls when routing calls through gateways such as Azure API Management, Mulesoft, and Kong.
Azure Copilot introduces specialized agents (gated preview) to support end-to-end lifecycle management for migrating, operating, and modernizing workloads anywhere. The Copilot experience also evolves from chat into an immersive, full-screen command center (public preview) powered by GPT-5 reasoning and artifact-generation capabilities.
Microsoft is previewing agent-level guardrails in the Foundry Control Plane (formerly content filters) that let you apply and customize safety controls per agent to help mitigate prompt-injection and other risks.
Microsoft announced the public preview of Agent Loop in Azure Logic Apps (Consumption), bringing agentic intelligence and adaptive workflows to the serverless Logic Apps runtime and enabling movement beyond traditional static automation toward goal-driven, adaptive automations.
Microsoft Foundry announced a Developer Training tier (preview) that offers ultra-low-cost fine-tuning model training by using spot capacity. The tier aims to provide training affordability comparable to the existing Developer hosting tier, specifically for the training phase of fine-tuning workflows.
Azure NetApp Files is releasing a public preview of user and group quota reports that give visibility into quota limits and usage for NFS, SMB, and dual-protocol volumes to help organizations monitor and manage capacity.
Azure NetApp Files now supports creating large volumes up to 7.2 PiB with the Cool Access feature on dedicated capacity in Public Preview, targeting workloads where most data are rarely accessed and extending cool-access support beyond prior capacity limits.
Foundry Local is entering Private Preview for Android, adding to existing Windows and Mac support to enable advanced on-device AI for smartphones, tablets, and IoT devices; the release also integrates Whisper models for privacy-preserving speech and audio processing.
Microsoft announced a private preview of an ActiveMQ and JMS connector for Azure Logic Apps, enabling connections to enterprise messaging systems built on ActiveMQ and JMS to support advanced hybrid integration scenarios.
Microsoft outlines a vision for ‘ambient and autonomous’ security to protect AI-driven systems in the emerging agentic era, proposing security become a foundational, proactive capability rather than an add-on.
Microsoft announced at Ignite 2025 that Security Copilot is being integrated into Microsoft 365 E5, introducing agents built into security workflows to help teams move from reactive incident response to more proactive, strategic protection.
A brief announcement on the .NET Blog describing new post-quantum cryptography (PQC) support in .NET. The post outlines what was added for PQC and explains the development path and decisions that led to those additions.
The Archive access tier for Azure Blob Storage is now generally available in the Taiwan North region, enabling customers in Taiwan to store infrequently accessed data in a cost-effective tier while meeting data residency requirements.
Azure NetApp Files now has a public preview for large-volume Breakthrough mode, which delivers extreme performance and scalability for demanding HPC and EDA workloads. It supports volumes up to 2 PiB and can deliver throughput up to 50 GiB/s depending on workload characteristics.
Azure Backup is in public preview with threat detection for Azure VM backups, powered by Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC). The feature lets customers assess the health of VM backup restore points by identifying malicious indicators within restore points.
Azure Monitor is in public preview for query-based metric alerts that support all metric types — platform, Prometheus, and custom — and add query capabilities using PromQL to provide broader and more powerful monitoring coverage.
Microsoft announced that the Visual Studio Code Private Marketplace is now generally available — a secure, curated extension hub for teams to manage and distribute VS Code extensions privately. Read the full article: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/11/18/PrivateMarketplace
GitHub Enterprise Importer (GEI) can now migrate repositories to GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC) using GitHub-owned blob storage. This feature is generally available and removes the need to provide shared access keys during migration.
Azure has announced a public preview of “SDK Stats” for the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro to give customers internal visibility into the Application Insights data collection pipeline, helping diagnose telemetry collection and delivery issues.
GitHub updated the enterprise licensing CSV export to include outside collaborators so enterprises can better track license consumption across organizations. The improvement is now generally available.
Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2026 is generally available. The release modernizes the IDE with deep AI integration, including built-in GitHub Copilot and support for agentic workflows, to help professional developers work more productively.
Effective December 1, 2025, GitHub will standardize the billing date to the first of each month for usage-based products paid by credit card for self-serve metered Enterprise customers. The billing period stays as the calendar month. This change is now generally available.
The blog post announces F# 10, highlighting new language features, performance improvements, and tooling enhancements that ship with .NET 10.
Announcement post introducing C# 14 and its features; C# 14 ships as part of .NET 10 and the full post is on the .NET Blog.
GitHub added a new organization-level setting (now in public preview) that lets organization owners restrict which users can install GitHub Apps for repositories. This blocks repository administrators from installing GitHub Apps on their own, giving owners tighter control over app installation and repository security.
Microsoft and NVIDIA published a joint research post on the Microsoft Security Blog about collaborative work investigating real-time immunity.
GitHub added a fine-grain enterprise role—“View enterprise Copilot metrics”—that grants access to the Copilot Usage Metrics APIs and the Copilot Usage Dashboard so assigned users can view enterprise-level Copilot usage data.
Azure Site Recovery is now generally available with seamless failback support from Azure VMs that use managed disks back to on-premises Hyper-V, even when the original replication used a storage account.
Azure Site Recovery is generally available with a new capacity guidance feature that recommends alternative VM sizes during failover when the originally targeted VM size may have limited allocation availability due to capacity constraints, improving disaster recovery options.
Azure Site Recovery is in public preview for supporting major Linux OS version upgrades without disabling replication or losing recovery points; supported on RHEL and SLES (for example, RHEL 8 → RHEL 9).
Azure Site Recovery is available in Public Preview with support for up to 5x churn, enabling up to 500 MB/s per VM. This update improves replication throughput so customers can protect high‑IOPS, high‑throughput workloads with Site Recovery.
Microsoft Azure will end extended support for Python 3.10 on October 1, 2026; apps on App Service will keep running but will no longer receive security updates or customer support.
Microsoft announces the retirement of Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc in October 2026.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now provides Pod CIDR expansion in the Azure CNI Overlay as a public preview to help clusters support larger and more dynamic Kubernetes workloads.
Azure has announced public preview of eBPF host routing in Advanced Container Networking Services (ACNS) for AKS. The feature uses eBPF-based host routing to improve networking performance for containerized applications across distributed environments and integrates with Azure CNI.
GitHub added an option to configure the Copilot coding agent as a bypass actor for repository rulesets, so Copilot-driven activity can be exempted from rules that would otherwise block automation or generated commits.
Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) UDR management is generally available with a new UseExisting mode that detects existing user-defined routes (UDRs) and appends required routes rather than replacing customer route entries, giving customers more flexibility and compliance control.
GitHub Copilot has begun a public preview rollout of OpenAI’s latest 5.1-series models—GPT-5.1, GPT-5.1-Codex, and GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini—bringing the new general and code-specialized models (including a smaller, low‑cost/low‑latency Codex-Mini) to Copilot users. The announcement was posted on the GitHub Blog.
Azure Virtual Network Manager peering compliance is now generally available, delivering a secure, centralized way to enforce and monitor VNet peering rules to protect network connectivity managed by Azure Virtual Network Manager — particularly valuable in large-scale environments to prevent unintended peerings and ensure governance.
Azure Virtual Network Manager IP Address Management (IPAM) – Pool Association Recommendation is now generally available, delivering intelligent, large-scale automation to help organizations manage and associate IPAM pools across their expanding Azure network footprint and reduce manual effort and errors.
GitHub Actions OIDC tokens now include a check_run_id claim, allowing workflows to present a run-specific identifier to external services. This change enables more fine-grained attribute-based access control and improved auditability for integrations.
GitHub announced that you can now track and manage the Copilot coding agent directly within Visual Studio Code using a streamlined, centralized “mission control” view that includes access to session logs and management tools without leaving the editor.
GitHub added support for agent-specific custom instructions for Copilot code review and the Copilot coding agent by introducing an excludeAgent property in .instructions.md files, letting you control when particular instructions apply or are ignored.
This post is a curated session guide for Microsoft Ignite 2025 focused on Azure AI Foundry, highlighting must-see developer sessions for hands-on learning, practical demos, and expert insights to help developers plan their conference schedule.
GitHub secret scanning now recognizes additional private key formats and has upgraded its existing private key detectors to better catch exposed cryptographic credentials. The release also updates Sentry-related pattern names used in scanning.
Microsoft announced .NET 10 is generally available, delivering a faster, more secure, and more capable platform for modern development. The release improves performance, productivity, and security across the stack, and C# 14 adds language refinements for more natural, expressive coding.
Azure Database for MySQL triggers for Azure Functions is now generally available, enabling change tracking on any MySQL table and letting you build event-driven applications that invoke Azure Functions when rows change.
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server now generally available: you can self-serve configure the lower_case_table_names server parameter during server creation for MySQL 8.0+.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is releasing a public preview that adds scheduler profile configuration with an in-tree plugin, enabling organizations running complex Kubernetes workloads to customize pod placement policies.
Announcement page for the Visual Studio Code October 2025 release (version 1.106) pointing readers to the full release notes.
The article explains how to teach Agentic Strands agents to assume cross-account AWS IAM roles so they can read resources (for example, to answer operational questions like which VMs are running high CPU or low on disk). It covers the motivation, high-level workflow (AssumeRole via STS), and practical/security considerations for enabling safe cross-account access by autonomous agents.
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio now offers an ‘Auto’ option in the model picker (public preview) that selects the best Copilot model for you automatically.
Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee announced the retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026; after that there will be no further releases, bug fixes, or security updates. Users are advised to migrate to Gateway API or another Ingress controller.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) announces general availability of LocalDNS, a built-in local DNS caching solution designed to reduce DNS resolution delays and improve reliability for large-scale clusters that experience high query volumes or upstream outages.
Azure Migrate is in public preview with integrated Security insights that let customers assess potential risks in their on-premises environments and receive actionable recommendations to mitigate those risks during migration planning.
Azure Backup’s vaulted protection for ADLS Gen2 is now generally available, providing secure, off‑site, independent backups of Data Lake Storage to help organizations meet resilience and compliance requirements.
Azure Firewall now generally available: DNS flow trace logs provide deep, end-to-end visibility into DNS traffic and name resolution paths, delivering richer telemetry to help troubleshoot, validate, and secure DNS.
Azure announced the general availability of a JavaScript (JS) challenge for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) on Azure Front Door to strengthen bot mitigation.
Azure announced a public preview of Flatcar Container Linux as a node OS option for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The offering aims to reduce configuration drift and manual changes by providing a lightweight, immutable, container-optimized Linux distribution with automated updates and a smaller attack surface, improving node consistency, security, and operational predictability.
Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Linux with OS Guard for AKS, a new node-level protection designed to strengthen kernel and OS defenses for cloud-native workloads. The feature aims to mitigate sophisticated threats such as rootkits, container escapes, and unauthorized code execution to provide stronger security guarantees for Azure Kubernetes Service clusters.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is launching an agentic, AI-powered command-line experience (in public preview) to simplify diagnosing and resolving cluster issues by automating navigation of logs, telemetry, and diagnostics.
Microsoft announced .NET 10, describing it as the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release to date, with platform-wide updates and new features across areas like ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, and Aspire.
A brief recap of the November 2025 servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework, published on the .NET Blog.
Azure Blob Object Replication Priority Replication is now generally available, letting customers mark replication policy rules for prioritized copying from a source storage account to a destination storage account so selected objects are replicated ahead of others.
Azure announced General Availability of Geo Priority Replication for Azure Blob Storage. The feature accelerates data replication for GRS and GZRS accounts between primary and secondary regions and is backed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Azure has announced a Public Preview feature to troubleshoot Azure Firewall using packet capture. The capability captures specific flows with filtering by protocol, flags and other filters, and captures can be started from the Azure portal or via PowerShell.
GitHub deprecated Claude Sonnet 3.5 across all Copilot experiences on November 10, 2025, and made Claude Haiku 4.5 available in Copilot Free.
GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency now supports Visual Studio subscriptions, letting organizations use GitHub Enterprise features via Visual Studio subscriptions while keeping data stored in chosen regions for compliance. The support applies to both subscription-based and usage-based (metered) GitHub Enterprise plans.
Azure announces general availability of Web Application Firewall (WAF) support for Application Gateway for Containers, the next evolution of Application Gateway combined with the Application Gateway Ingress Controller.
Microsoft published a November 2025 progress report for its Secure Future Initiative, reporting steady progress across all areas and engineering pillars. The initiative’s mission is to accelerate innovation, strengthen resilience, and lead the industry toward a safer digital future, with the report underscoring Microsoft’s continued commitment to security.
GitHub has begun a public preview rollout of Raptor mini, an experimental model available in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio Code. The model is being made available to users on Pro, Pro+, and Free plans and can be selected within the Copilot settings. The announcement appeared on the GitHub Blog.
The 2025 Kubernetes Steering Committee election concluded. Four of seven seats were up for election; the incoming members begin two-year terms immediately. The post announces the newly elected members, continuing members, election officers, emeritus members, and gives ways for the community to follow and participate in Steering Committee work.
The labels() function in KQL graph semantics is now generally available. It lets you retrieve, filter, and project label information for nodes and edges in graph queries, simplifying work with categorized graph data.
Microsoft announces public preview of openCypher support for KQL graph semantics, enabling openCypher queries over graph data in Fabric Eventhouse and Azure Data Explorer.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server is now generally available in all three availability zones in Japan West, allowing deployments that improve availability and resiliency.
Microsoft disclosed a new side-channel attack called “Whisper Leak” that enables attackers to infer conversation topics from interactions with remote language models even when communications are encrypted. The finding was published on the Microsoft Security Blog.
GitHub is removing notifications that come from @mentions inside commit messages to reduce spam and help users focus on important notifications. Previously, mentioning a user or team in a commit message would generate a notification; that behavior is being removed.
GitHub will change how Actions’ pull_request_target and environment branch protection rules are evaluated for pull-request-related events, effective 2025-12-08, to reduce security-critical exposures.
On November 7, 2025 GitHub retired the GraphQL Explorer from its API documentation. The change, following a prior announcement, affects a small number of users who used the Explorer to experiment with the GitHub GraphQL API.
GitHub updated the public preview of the new pull request ‘Files changed’ page (Nov 6). Highlights include the ability to apply suggested changes in batch, new options to collapse parts of the page for easier navigation, and improvements to the merge experience.
GitHub increased limits for reusable workflows in GitHub Actions (November 2025): workflows can now nest up to 10 reusable workflows and a single workflow run can call up to 50 workflows in total.
GitHub updated the Projects onboarding flow to help users start faster by adding options to connect and import items from a repository and to set a default repository for new issues.
Azure Ultra Disk is now generally available with a new flexible provisioning model that lets you configure capacity, IOPS and throughput (MBPS) more independently so you can better tailor and optimize disk performance for your workloads.
IDC research urges CISOs to adopt AI-powered, integrated cloud security platforms—such as CNAPP, XDR, and SIEM—to lower risk, reduce complexity, and improve resilience, according to a Microsoft Security Blog post.
Gateway API v1.4.0 (released Oct 6, 2025) advances Kubernetes service networking with three features promoted to Standard (BackendTLSPolicy, supportedFeatures in GatewayClass status, and named rule fields for Routes) and several experimental additions (Mesh/XMesh, default Gateways, and an ExternalAuth filter for HTTPRoute). The release also adds per-port TLS/client-certificate configuration to address connection coalescing security, introduces a couple of breaking validation changes, improves CI/docs, and is usable on Kubernetes >=1.26.
Azure Blob Storage object replication metrics for pending operations and pending bytes are now generally available in all regions, enabling customers to monitor replication status and act on delays.
Azure MCP Server is now generally available. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), it provides a secure, standards-based bridge that lets agent-based applications and developer workflows access and coordinate across Azure services (examples called out include AKS, ACA, App Service, Cosmos DB, SQL, and AI Foundry). The GA release is aimed at simplifying integration, improving security and interoperability, and enabling cloud-powered agents.
GitHub Copilot for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is available in public preview. It provides context-aware assistance to help you write Transact-SQL (T-SQL) faster and more accurately and can answer general SQL questions using database and connection context.
In early November 2025 Azure announced a Public Preview update for Azure SQL Hyperscale that adds support for multiple geo‑secondary replicas. This capability simplifies designing and deploying disaster recovery topologies that span multiple regions.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server now supports configuring read replicas (in-region and geo-replicas) with the Premium SSD v2 storage tier in Public Preview, enabling scale-out for read-heavy workloads and improved performance by offloading read operations.
Ghost text suggestions have been open sourced as part of the Copilot Chat extension — the second milestone toward making VS Code an open source AI editor.
Planned Failover for Azure Storage is now generally available. It lets customers initiate a managed failover for geo-redundant storage accounts, swapping primary and secondary endpoints while preserving geo-redundancy and data durability.
GitHub has retired the legacy Copilot usage report CSV that organization administrators could access under Copilot access settings; the report was deprecated three months earlier and is now no longer available.
GitHub code search now includes a new enterprise: qualifier (generally available) that lets you search across all organizations in your enterprise, simplifying searches that previously required manually combining multiple organizations.
GitHub announced that the Copilot coding agent — its asynchronous, autonomous background agent — now supports organization-level custom instructions to guide how Copilot understands and works with projects.
GitHub’s Copilot coding agent, an autonomous background agent that creates and updates pull requests with a summary of its changes, now supports repository pull request templates so its generated PR bodies follow your repo’s template while still inserting the agent’s summary.
Microsoft explains how Copilot Studio uses .NET to run AI agents consistently across platforms and to bring performant, innovative agent execution to the web via WebAssembly.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now offers Query Advisor as generally available in the .NET SDK. Query Advisor analyzes your query structure and gives clear, actionable recommendations to help you write faster, more efficient queries.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now generally supports ORDER BY ST_DISTANCE, allowing queries to be sorted by distance from a point or GeoJSON object directly in the database.
Azure has made Connection Monitor integration generally available for ExpressRoute, allowing end-to-end connectivity monitoring to be enabled directly when creating or updating ExpressRoute connections.
Azure has announced general availability of Resiliency Insights for ExpressRoute. This assessment capability measures network reliability for ExpressRoute workloads using a resiliency index — a percentage score calculated from factors such as route resilience (source content truncated).
Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server now generally availability (GA) supports a dedicated Azure Standard Load Balancer for servers configured with high availability, delivering a dedicated load-balancing option for HA-enabled deployments.
The article explains how new European Union risk-based legislation helps CISOs strengthen cybersecurity for critical infrastructure by encouraging organizations to assess and prioritize risks, align controls with regulatory expectations, and build more resilient systems.
Azure has made ExpressRoute Resiliency Validation generally available. The feature lets you perform site failovers for your Virtual Network Gateway to assess and validate network connectivity resiliency for ExpressRoute-enabled workloads.
Microsoft announced the open-source DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator, which lets you run DocumentDB (a MongoDB‑compatible, open-source document database built on PostgreSQL) on Kubernetes by extending the cluster with custom resource definitions (CRDs).
GitHub announced an npm security update that disables creation of classic tokens and introduces the first changes toward a granular token management system to strengthen npm security.
The article announces that coding agents have become central to VS Code in 2025, describing new agent mode, Copilot integration, and the GitHub Copilot CLI while noting the growing ecosystem of agents from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
GitHub announced October 2025 updates to its secret scanning service, including new detection for Base64-encoded secrets and other expanded support for additional secret types.
Announcement: .NET Conf 2025 is scheduled for November 11–13, featuring .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026, with a Student Zone on November 14.
GitHub fixed an issue that sometimes caused organization-level Copilot policies to display incorrect options when the enterprise-level policy was set to “Unconfigured.” The change ensures organizations now see the correct Copilot policy options in that scenario.
Microsoft Security Blog published an e-book that shows how generative AI can improve Security Operations Centers (SOCs) by reducing alert fatigue, speeding triage, enabling proactive threat hunting, and helping teams get ahead of cyberattacks.
GitHub now lets repository administrators require approvals from specific teams to merge changes into protected branches using rulesets. You can target these team-based approval requirements to particular files and folders, giving finer-grained control over who must sign off on changes.
GitHub now lets enterprise owners delegate management of AI and Copilot policies and setup administration to specific enterprise members and teams, without requiring broad enterprise ownership.
GitHub expanded its billing APIs to let organizations programmatically manage budgets, track usage, and retrieve cost center data so finance and engineering teams can automate cost controls and reporting.
GitHub admins can now control access to Copilot’s agent mode in IDEs through the Copilot policies page on github.com. The change is intended to give organizations better governance over who can use agent mode in development environments.
Azure NetApp Files is offering a Public Preview of an Object REST API — an S3-compatible REST API that lets customers bridge traditional file-based storage and modern cloud services, enabling reuse of existing data and integration with Microsoft Fabric.
Microsoft DART researchers identified a novel backdoor, dubbed SesameOp, that abuses the OpenAI Assistants API as a covert command-and-control (C2) channel. A component of the backdoor uses the Assistants API as a storage/relay to fetch commands and execute tasks inside compromised environments, avoiding traditional C2 methods.
GitHub announced budget-tracking controls for AI tools and the launch of two new premium request SKUs for the GitHub Copilot coding agent and GitHub Spark to help teams manage AI spending as usage grows.